Look at these two photographs. Which one do you prefer?
The first one feels a bit washed out and the detail isn't clear. It cost me $250 for this image. The photographer for this image shoots commercial work, like small appliances.
The second photo is warm and the details are clear. It cost me $85.
Photographing tin needs to be done by an experienced photographer because of all the shiny places (hot spots).The second photo was taken by a guy who takes pictures of glass on a regular basis. The photographer goes into their computer and "cooks" the photo by blowing it up and adjusting the image pixel by pixel. Talk about time consuming work!
There are many reasons to have professional photographs of your tin work. Keeping a record of your work is important, having great photos for entering art calls, and having high res photos in case you may want to have a book made at some point. Unfortunately getting a small $300 tin piece photographed doesn't make sense. So I must try to photograph it myself which isn't so good.
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